This was a long awaited live for our country. With such a cheap ticket (€ 20) and two very popular support acts (Inveracity, Suicidal Angels) success was for granted. Though the death / heavy metal warriors from England aren’t going through their most creative phase of their career they still have a lot of fans who want to see them on stage.

Inveracity, after the weird performance without their proper singer as Behemoth’s support kicked our asses! Their new bass player seems to have fitted in perfectly, the new tracks cause impatience for the new album (there are three years since the wonderful “Extermianation Of Millions”), the sound was unbelievable for a support act and what can we say about this drummer… Suicidal Angels was no surprise. It’s a band which doesn’t reinvent the music they’re involved, thrash metal but their passion and their uprising shows gave them a contract with Nuclear Blast. They had a new member on guitar, lots of good mood and again managed to push everyone to dance with their frontman’s lines (truth is they sound kind of funny in Greek) and a lot of people liked them despite their different style from the other two, death metal, acts.

Among crazy screams of joy and roars the band from Coventry (can’t remember when they were in premiership…) began with “Fourth Crusade”; not believing their eyes of what was going on in the audience! Though they didn’t smile much at first –with the exception of Karl Willets, they started to have their times of their lives with highlight the crowd surf by an injured guy with crutches in front of the shocked bass player Jo Bench. If you count the years this band has been around it’s not a small thing to watch these 45-ers play THAT music and bang like THAT! Indeed, the band had an original, metal attitude that caused great enthusiasm without forgetting a friend who crowd surfed from the stage to the bar!

The setlist was almost dreamy since they covered their ENTIRE career from 1986 (title track for “In Battle There Is No Law”) until 2005 and their last effort to date “Those Once Loyal”; with vocals by Dave Ingram (known from Benediction). The guitar sound was ultra heavy as expected and after somewhat three tracks it became even better. Note that Gagarin’s setlist was bigger than the one they’ve presented so far on this tour. The show will be memorable but unfortunately not just for the performance of Bolt Thrower…

All vibes for this show were positive, so it’s quite unexplainable why there were more people than what the club could handle or why there was poor air condition / ventilation to cool the area. The conditions inside the venue after Inveracity’s performance started to become suffocating and stifling forcing a lot of people who had a ticket to leave before the end of Bolt Thrower’s show. Most people who came out during or after the show were like cats after a shower… from sweat! Some may think that since this is Greece things naturally work this way but some will never go to pay for a show if they stay like this!

Bolt Thrower Setlist:

4th Crusade

Rebirth of Humanity

Mercenary

At First Light

When Glory Beckons

World Eater / Cenotaph

Anti-Tank (Dead Armour)

Salvo

No Guts, No Glory

Eternal War

The Killchain / Powder Burns

Pride

Encore:

In Battle There Is No Law

...For Victory 

2nd encore :

This Time It's War


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